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Mariano Rivera: Yankees Have No Replacement for the Greatest of All Time

would never admit it, but the gods are unjust.

If you haven’t heard, the Yankees’ 42-year-old closer Mariano Rivera tore his ACL shagging batting practice fly balls in Kansas City on Thursday night. The most pointless thing in the least significant place.

Rivera always claimed that his cutter—the most effective single pitch in baseball history—was a gift from God. Now the same chaotic power that gifted him his career has seen fit to rob him of the graceful exit from the game he so richly deserved. 

The son of a fisherman from Panama City, Rivera rose from complete obscurity to become an icon in New York City and the paragon of a certain kind of baseball iconography. He was DiMaggio without the ...

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